

      Gulf data set:

This data set covers the states of the Gulf region and the Arabian
peninsula for the period 15 April 79 to 31 March 99. The source texts
prior to 10 June 97 were located using the NEXIS search command:

    (SAUDI! OR SAUDI ARABIA! OR IRAN! OR IRAQ! OR KUWAIT! OR GCC OR
    OMAN! OR YEMEN! OR QATAR! OR BAHRAIN! OR UAE OR EMIRATE! OR DUBAI!
    OR ABU DHABI!)
    AND NOT (SOCCER! OR SPORT! OR OLYMPIC! OR TENNIS OR BASKETBALL OR
    NBA OR T.STRM OR HEADLINE(HIGHLIGHTS OR (WORLD W/2 OUTLOOK) OR (KEY
    W/1 FACTS) OR (EVENTS W/1 SCHEDULED) OR (HISTORICAL W/1 CALENDAR) ) ) 

Texts after 10 June 97 were downloaded from the Reuters Business
Briefing service; the countries involved were the same as in the NEXIS
search.

There are two versions of the data

    * a set coded from the lead sentences only (57,000 events)
    * a set coded from full stories (304,000 events) 

There is a high correlation (r > 0.75) between the two versions for
major actor interactions aggregated with the Goldstein scale, but the
full-story version is better for minor actors.

The dictionaries used to code this data were updated to include all
significant international actors identified by the Actor_Filter program.
However, only a standard dictionary of verb phrases, not customized for
the Gulf, was used.

Download Gulf data coded from leads (.sit)
<GULF99.LEADS.events.sit>
Download Gulf data coded from leads (.zip)
<GULF99.ZIP>
Download Gulf data coded from full stories(.sit)
<GULF99.ALL.events.sit>
Download Gulf data dictionaries (.sit)
<GULF.Dictionaries.sit>

We have also produced a tab-delimited file with the data aggregated by
month using the Goldstein scale. This covers the directed dyads between
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE and USA for both the lead-sentence
and full-story data sets. The first line of the file identifies the
dyad: the "AL" prefix indicates that the full-story data set was used.

Tab-delimited Gulf time series
<GULF99.Comb.txt>

LAST UPDATED: 5 APRIL 1999

